Happy Earth Day, DC! When neighbors come together to clean up our communities, we improve public health, protect the environment, and foster strong community pride.
We can all be a part of protecting the earth one step at a time! 🌎🌳🗑️
I remain committed to working with the community and all of my colleagues on other measures they would like to see to support safety for all of our kids and hope we can pass the emergency at our next legislative meeting.
Unfortunately, my colleagues voted to yet again postpone the vote on my emergency bill to extend the ability of MPD to declare youth curfew zones through September, which would prevent a gap over the spring and summer months.
The first vote on the permanent youth curfew bill passed 8-5 and we will have a second vote on it next month.
Today, the DC Council advanced a permanent youth curfew bill that allows MPD to declare designated 8pm youth curfew zones for groups of eight or more people under age 18 as a preventative tool and implements a District-wide midnight curfew for teens age 17 and under.
We are in budget season!
As Chairwoman of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, I will be holding budget hearings for the public safety agencies under the committee’s purview.
You can sign up to testify or submit testimony here: lims.dccouncil.gov/hearings/
Check out our schedule👇
I am sending my deepest condolences to their families and loved ones. No parent should ever have to bury their child due to senseless violence.
We must do more to get illegal guns off our streets and reduce gun violence across the District. Our kids and families are counting on us.
All of our children and neighbors deserve to be safe in their own communities. MPD has tragically confirmed that a 12-year-old and 14-year-old have died after a double shooting in Northeast yesterday.
I will be working with my colleagues to prioritize funding for collective bargaining agreements and non-union pay increases this budget.
These workforce investment funds for collective bargaining agreements and non-union pay increases could be funded with revenues currently being held back by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
Our firefighters have waited for a collective bargaining agreement that provides wages to keep up with the rising cost of living and as the budget is now with the Council, we must prioritize this funding for our first responders.
It is unacceptable that the budget removes funding set-asides for future collective bargaining agreements including for our firefighters.
Our firefighters put their lives on the line to protect our communities every day and it is imperative that we stand with them and our public workforce to ensure they are properly paid and have fair benefits.
I look forward to working together to get this important omnibus bill passed and implemented.
My new affordable housing package called the HOMES Act will:
🏠 make homeownership more accessible to more people
🏘 help stabilize rent by increasing supply and bringing costs down
🏗️ make it easier to build new types of housing
The number one issue I hear from residents across all eight wards is the unaffordable cost of housing in DC.
Read more on my HOMES Act here👇
My affordable housing package will make homeownership more accessible for more Washingtonians, help stabilize rent by increasing supply, and make it easier to build new types of housing to brings costs down.
We have an affordable housing crisis in DC, and we have to take bold action to ensure more residents can afford to live and stay here. Today, I introduced my plan to make this a reality: the HOMES Act.
A clean community is a healthy community!
So great to partner today with District Cleanups and Shaw Main Streets for our Earth Day cleanup in Shaw. Thank you to the dozens of neighbors who came out to help pick up litter and keep our neighborhood clean!
Today, the Mayor gave her budget presentation to the Council and we will soon receive the full proposal. I will be thoroughly reviewing the budget to ensure we are investing in these urgent needs.
The District’s budget must prioritize keeping all DC residents and visitors safe, diversifying and growing our local economy, and promoting healthy and affordable communities.
The Leading Education Access for Reentry and Necessary Success (LEARNS) Amendment Act: This bill would mandate the Department of Corrections to evaluate students for special education services who were not evaluated before entering DOC custody.
This bill would allow the mayor to extend the juvenile curfew hours in DC when appropriate to protect public safety, and it would authorize the MPD Chief to establish extended juvenile curfew hour zones when necessary to work to prevent planned fights, “teen takeovers,” & other unsafe activities.
The Juvenile Curfew Amendment Act: This is a permanent version of the juvenile curfew bill and I held a public hearing on it in December.
Today, I am holding a markup on two important bills in the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee. Below is a breakdown of what we will be discussing:
Reminder: Join me this weekend for an Earth Day cleanup starting at the Kennedy Recreation Center in Shaw! We have teamed up with Shaw Main Streets and District Cleanups to help keep our neighborhoods clean and healthy.
Sign up here to join us: www.brookepintodc.com/events/2026-...
Happy Easter! Today, Christians recognize the resurrection of Jesus and a season of hope and new beginnings. Wishing a blessed Easter to all who celebrate.
My Prosper DC plan includes several bills that create more programming in the District to ensure young people have safe places to go including on nights and weekends.
To be clear: the juvenile curfew is just one effective and preventative tool to reduce juvenile crime without increasing arrests – it must also be coupled with meaningful expansions of youth programming and investments in our young people.
